“I never take anything for granted,” Allen, who was first elected in 2017, said in a telephone interview Tuesday night. “I think there were good candidates out there, we got to know each other in various forums, and it will be a different council. We’re losing some experience on council.”
No matter what happens in the Nov. 2 municipal election, the seven-member City Council will look much different in 2022 because only one of City Council’s current members whose seat is on the ballot Allen chose to seek re-election.
That means there will be at least three new members of City Council in 2022.
No matter what happens at the polls, the seven-member panel will look much different in 2022.
However, only one of City Council’s current members whose seat is on the ballot, Democrat Liz Allen, chose to seek re-election.
Besides Allen, a former reporter and editor at the Erie Times-News who was first elected to City Council in 2017, the other Democrats on the ballot are Jasmine Flores; Elspeth “Kate” Koehle; Kendrick Tate; Cory DiLoreto; Marcus P. Yuille; Maurice “Mo” Troop; and Chuck Nelson, a pastor who lives in the city’s west bayfront.
Flores, Koehle and Tate are running as a slate affiliated with local social justice group Erie County United.